"D. Patterson" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Spiv" wrote in message
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Nonsense. Britain invented globalisation in the 1700s. The UK has
consistently imported produce and products that are cheaper than the
home market. When it comes down to it, it can feed itself. In 1939
it was not ready,still importing vast qualitioes of food from the
empire
and others. By 1945 internal food production was way ahead of 1939.

In other words, the UK could not arm or feed itself during WWII.

You must learn to focus and at least attempt to get a point. The UK by
1945
could feed itself if it wanted too.

Britain wanted to feed itself in 1939, 1945, 1949, 1955 and failed to do
so
even in 1972, when Britain was stil only 70% self-sufficient in food
production.

It hasn't sunk in. Britain always imported cheaper food, and food that
can't be grown in the UK, from the empire and elsewhere. After WW2 the
need to be self sufficient was not there.

Once the battle of the Atlantic was won
importing huge quantities of food from
the USA and Canada was no longer a
problem.

which still meant that Britian was not
self-sufficient in food production.

Bit didn't need to be.

Later in the war the UK could arm itself with no problems, but in
the early part of the war, when Britain was fighting on many fronts by
herself, she could not arm herself against a country that had begun
arming
itself for 10 years before the war, even with British industry running
flat out.

The U.K was never self-sufficient in
the ability to arm itself at any time
in the Second World War or after
the Second World War.

It was.

Britian also started arming itself for
war ten years before the war.

Nonsense. Britain scrapped WW1 destroyers not long before the war. And when
the war started took a whole bunch of WW1 rust buckets from the USA. Also
there were treaties to keep to, which the Germans never.

nonetheless, Britian was
incapable of becoming self-sufficient
in arming itself for war.

Certainly was. Britain was a highly industrialised nation. For example, in
WW1, in one battle the heavy guns lost to the Germans were replaced by
British industry before the battle was over. If started at the same time as
the Germans Britain would have been fully ready.